PUNTA RASTA: a musical journey to the Caribe Sur

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Immediate download of this 10-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire, along with all the album artwork and a 24-page booklet of color photos, the stories behind all the songs, introductory liner notes by the artist, and full album credits, downloaded to you as a .pdf file. You'll also get a FREE bonus track that's not available elsewhere (a newly re-mixed track from the Insider's Limon project) and a full color .pdf album poster!

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This is my first instrumental album, featuring new versions of the tunes I originally composed and recorded for the INSIDER'S LIMON Audio Tour score. The music reflects my experience of the landscape, the people, the history, and the natural environment of the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and the beach towns of Puerto Viejo and Manzanillo - a place that, over the last 5 years, has truly become my home.

What you’ll hear on this album, for the most part, is groove music - harmonically and structurally simple by design, and - like the sea - driven by its rhythms. We took this approach in attempt to convey the essence and atmosphere of life on the Limon coast and provide a backdrop to the oral histories of its people that comprise much of Insiders’ Limon. We were happy enough with the results to want to do a music-only version to share with a broader listening audience and especially those of you already familiar with my music. And so, 2 1/2 years later, after many hours of editing, re-recording, reshaping and remixing the tracks written specifically for that mother project, I humbly present to you PUNTA RASTA.

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Jim VickPuerto Viejo, Costa Rica

Jim currently performs regularly on the southern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, just outside of the popular ecotourism and
surfing town of Puerto Viejo, Limon. Following up on his recently released instrumental album, PUNTA RASTA, he's now at work on a new solo acoustic album, as well as the album presentation of BHAKTI BLUE, a collection of his musical interpretations of the Sufi poet Rumi....more